• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.27-31
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• 2006

Optimization of process parameters for laser-arc hybrid welding process is intrinsically sophisticated because the process has three kinds of parameters-arc, laser and hybrid welding parameters. In this paper, the relationship between weldability and several process parameters such as laser beam-arc distance, electrode height, welding current and welding speed, were investigated by the full factorial experimental design. Weld quality was evaluated by using weight of spatters which is related with the pore area. It was found that the weld quality was increased with the increases in laser beam-arc distance and welding current, and decreased with the increases in electrode height and welding speed.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.15 no.7 s.88
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• pp.512-517
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• 2006

In this paper, the cold extrusion process for internal spline forming using a thin and long tube has been analyzed by using a rigid plastic finite element code. The internal spline consists of 10 tooths. The cold extrusion process has been focused on the comparisions of load-stroke relation and filling states of the teeth according to design parameters. The design parameters involve extrusion ratio, extrusion angle and friction factor. The internal spline forming can cause the buckling and folding during the cold extrusion process because of using a thin and long tube. The optimum design parameters have been obtained through rigid-plastic finite elements analysis. The extrusion ratio and extrusion angle have great effects on the deformation characteristics of the cold extrusion process.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.311-314
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• 2003

Superconduction materials possess electrical/electronic and magnetic properties. Because superconduction materials is a ceramic powder, that can not be produced singlehandedly. So Ag sheathed Bi-2223 wire was produced by drawing process using powder-in-tube(PIT) method This superconductor has many difficulties to produce. The main difficulty is that the mechanical properties of the ceramic powder are very different from those of the Ag sheath. Actually, the fabrication of Ag sheathed Bi-2223 superconductor by PIT tends to lead to non-uniformity in the core thickness during drawing process. That is so called “Sausaging”. This study analyzed a sausaging using the finite-element method. Also, Effects of drawing process parameters on a sausaging has been carried out using finite element method. Finally, A way to prevent a sausaging has been discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.85-96
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• 2001

In this paper, part features are classified and then its coding system is constructed by the considered characteristics of features in assemble process. Analyzing the characteristics of features, code values about part features are determined. Assembly process is divided into five functions such as transporting, handing, approaching, alignment and joining, and then the detail parameters of each functions such as determined. Code values about assembly process are determined according to detail parameters. The detail parameters are kinds of available working method and assembly tools when each assembly function is going on. By the coding system, available assembly process can be grasped and perceived for the part that it is difficult to assemble.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.12a
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• pp.236-245
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• 2000

A laboratory scale fluidized bed reactor was developed to treat the combustion characteristics of some fuels (wood, paper sludge, refuse derived fuel). The aims were to introduce the means of experiment and interpretation of the results and finally determine the particle characteristics on the pyrolysis and combustion process of the fuel. A single particle combustion process in the fluidized bed was closely observed. Understanding experimental facility characteristics and determining parameters were also carried out. The fuel combustion processes were observed by carbon conversion rate, recovery and mean carbon conversion time. They were estimated with the CO, $CO_2$ gas concentration monitored at the exit of the combustor. Fuel drying and pyrolysis process were governed by temperature distribution in the fuel particle. There was a significant overlap of the drying and devolatilization. However, transition process from devolatilization to char combustion seemed to be determined by mechanical solidity of the fuel particle after devolatilization process.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.194-197
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• 2004

In the tube hydroforming process, a tube is placed into the die cavity and the ends of the tube are sealed by fixing the axial cylinder piston into the ends. Then the tube is pressurized with a hydraulic fluid and simultaneously the axial cylinders move to feed the material into the expansion zone. Therefore, the quantitative relationship between process parameters such as internal pressure and feeding amount and hydroformabillity, is hard to establish because of their high complexity and many unknown factors. In this study, the empirical and the quantitative relationship between process parameters and hydroformabillity are analyzed by fuzzy rules. Fuzzy expert system is an advanced expert system which uses fuzzy rule and approximate reasoning. Many process parameters are converted to the quantitative relationship by use of approximate reasoning of fuzzy expert system. The comparison between experimentally measured hydroformabillity from hydroforming experiments and the predicted values by fuzzy expert system shows a good agreement.

• Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.71-90
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• 2016

Steel nitriding is a thermo-chemical process leading to surface hardening and improvement in fatigue properties. The process is strongly influenced by many different variables such as steel composition, nitrogen potential, temperature, time, and quenching media. In the present study, the influence of such parameters affecting physic-chemical and mechanical properties of nitride steels was evaluated. The aim was to streamline the process by numerical-experimental analysis allowing defining the optimal conditions for the success of the process. Input parameters-output results correlations were calculated through the employment of a multi-objective optimization software, modeFRONTIER (Esteco). The mechanical and microstructural results belonging to the nitriding process, performed with different processing conditions for various steels, are presented. The data were employed to obtain the analytical equations describing nitriding behavior as a function of nitriding parameters and steel composition. The obtained model was validated, through control designs, and optimized by taking into account physical and processing conditions.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.939-945
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• 2002

The rise throughput and the stability in the device fabrication can be obtained by applying chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process in 0.18 $\mu\textrm{m}$ semiconductor device. However, it still has various problems due to the CMP equipment. Especially, among the CMP components, process variables are very important parameters in determining the removal rate and non-uniformity. In this paper, we studied the DOE (design of experiment) method in order to get the optimized CMP equipment variables. Various process parameters, such as table and head speed, slurry flow rate and down force, have investigated in the viewpoint of removal rate and non-uniformity. Through the above DOE results, we could set-up the optimal CMP process parameters.

• Fibers and Polymers
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.140-143
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• 2001

To better understand the formation of necking in drawing processes of fibers, strain distributions during drawing processes have been analyzed. For simplicity, one-dimensional incompressible steady flow at a constant temperature was assumed and quasi-static model was used. To describe mechanical properties of solid polymers, non-linear visco-plastic material properties were assumed using the power law type hardening and rate-sensitive equation. The effects of various parameters on the neck formation were matematically analyzed. As material property parameters, strain-hardening parameter, visco-elastic coefficient and strain-rate sensitivity were considered and, for process parameters, the drawing ratio and the process length were considered. It was found that rate-insensitive materials do not reach a steady flow state and the rate-sensitivity plays a key role to have a steady flow. Also, the neck formation is mainly affected by material properties, especially for the quasi-static model. If the process length changes, the strain distribution was found to be proportionally re-distributed along the process line by the factor of the total length change.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.28-31
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• 2000

In this paper, part features are classified and then coding system is constructed by the considering characteristics of features in assembly process. Analyzing the characteristics of features, code values about part features are determined. Assembly process is divided into five functions such as transporting, handling, approaching, alignment, joining and then the detail parameters of each function are determined. Code values about assembly process are determined according to detail parameters. The detail parameters are the kinds of available working method and assembly tools, when each assembly function is going on. By the coding system, available assembly process can be grasped and perceived the part that Is difficult to assemble.